Faculty

Jonathan Fratkin, MD

Education

State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, 1970

Residency

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA

Fellowship

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA

Field

American Board of Pathology Certification: Anatomic and Neuropathology, 1983

Clinical interests

Dr. Fratkin is certified by American Boards of Pathology and Ophthalmology. He specializes in the diagnosis of diseases related to the central and peripheral nervous systems (neuropathology), pathologic interactions of nerves and muscles (neuromuscular pathology) and diseases of the eye and visual system (ophthalmic pathology).

Research interests

The focus of Dr. Fratkin’s research is neurodegenerative diseases.

Professional activities

He is a member of the American Association of Neuropathologists and the American Academy of Neurologists.

Selected publications

Dr. Fratkin was the first to describe Involvement of the spinal cord in West Nile virus: